Rebirth Counterattack with Space
Chapter 348 - 336: Baffling

Chapter 348: Chapter 336: Baffling

"Heh heh, you can spare yourself the concern. Rest assured, even if all of you die off, I will still be able to live well. You’d better hurry up and fetch me some boiling water. Oh, and the hospital cafeteria sells food, don’t forget to buy me a large portion of noodles before you leave, to have for dinner. I want it with an egg. Also, buy a bag of cakes for me to snack on at night."

Chen Qiuyu glared back at her, unwilling to show weakness.

"Hmph, even pigs don’t eat as much as you do. I’m waiting to see what kind of end you’ll meet in the future."

Yang Banmei felt terribly heartbroken when she heard this, thinking about how much more money this was going to cost. But she didn’t dare to disobey, so she could only curse under her breath as she did what Chen Qiuyu had asked, first fetching her boiling water, then buying noodles, and finally choosing the cheapest bag of buns from the snack shop.

In the end, her resentment grew the more she thought about it, and outside the ward she opened the container with noodles and viciously spat into it several times, muttering maliciously, "I want you to eat, eat, eat, eat yourself to death."

Having done this, she felt somewhat relieved and entered the ward with the items.

Her outrageous behavior was done without any attempt to hide it, naturally drawing the attention of many onlookers, each revealing a look of disbelief.

As soon as Yang Banmei left, an old lady approached the bedside and looked at the bowl of noodles on Chen Qiuyu’s nightstand, her expression showing she had something to say but hesitated, "Girl, was that your mother-in-law just now?"

"Yes," Chen Qiuyu replied cheerfully, feeling full of confidence after this incident and believing that changing her fate wasn’t such a difficult task.

"Oh, no wonder," the old lady said with a complex look, glancing again at the bowl of noodles with hesitation, "Your family-in-law doesn’t treat you well, do they?"

"After all, they are my elders, so it’s not good for me to speak ill of them. I can only blame my own hard luck, to be beaten and end up like this by their family, unsure of what to do in the future..."

Chen Qiuyu put on a sad face, acting the part of a resigned and downtrodden daughter-in-law, while sneaking a glance at the bowl of noodles and sneering inwardly.

She guessed that someone had seen Yang Banmei spit into the noodles... That was probably all she could do to vent her anger. Compared to hunger, what was a bit of spit? If she wanted to disgust her, Qiuyu would disgust her back first. If Yang Banmei did such things openly, she couldn’t be blamed.

Thinking this, Chen Qiuyu made herself appear even more pitiable, with no trace of artifice in her display of sorrow, "Now, I’ve lost my child, and my uterus has been removed. My parents are fighting with them, and it’s only natural they are angry with me."

"What? You suffered a miscarriage and had your uterus removed because of their beatings? That’s terrible, which parents wouldn’t make a scene if their daughter went through something like that? What right do they have to be angry?"

The old lady’s voice rose suddenly, capturing the attention of the others in the ward who had been all ears. Upon hearing this, they expressed disbelief and became indignant, each speaking their mind. Even the nurses at the nursing station were alerted and came in to intervene. Upon hearing the story, they were filled with sympathy; there was no one in the ward who knew Chen Qiuyu’s condition better than they did.

When the young nurse returned to the nursing station and shared the gossip, even though the nurses were used to seeing all sorts of life and death situations and had become somewhat hardened, they couldn’t help but express their dismay when someone mentioned that Yang Banmei had spat in Chen Qiuyu’s noodles...

A kind-hearted nurse even specially went to advise Chen Qiuyu not to eat the noodles and offered to buy her a new bowl, but she was declined. Seeing how Qiuyu accepted it with calm resignation, eating the noodles without any qualms, it was obvious she had grown accustomed to this treatment.

Everyone thus felt even more sympathy and could not bear to see Chen Qiuyu’s suffering...

Unbeknownst to Yang Banmei, the hospital—from the nurses to the patients, to the family members—had completely tipped the scales of their hearts. By the time she returned to the hospital the next day, everyone’s eyes were filled with contempt and disdain as they looked at her. Confused and furious, she assumed Chen Qiuyu had said something and immediately confronted her.

At this, the old lady from yesterday immediately came to Qiuyu’s defense and accused her, "Everyone saw you spit in your daughter-in-law’s noodles yesterday. You really are cruel. It’s not enough that you wronged your daughter-in-law; you also do such things behind her back, not afraid of being struck by lightning."

Others joined in the accusations, and Yang Banmei felt a surge of frustration, almost spitting out a mouthful of old blood. She opened her mouth to defend herself but didn’t know what to say. Should she claim that the child Qiuyu was carrying wasn’t her son’s? Who knew that if she said that, Qiuyu might change her mind and they would all turn against each other?

Of course, that was to come later.

At this point, Yang Banmei was still unaware that her reputation had already been largely destroyed by a single act of venting. Seething with anger, she stormed out of the hospital, where Niu Shan and his son Niu Dazhuang had been waiting for her impatiently at the flowerbed by the hospital entrance. "What took you so long?" they asked with visible impatience.

"If you’re so bothered, why didn’t you go yourself?" The area outside was not a place to talk, with people coming and going. Unable to vent her anger, Yang Banmei’s face was tight with rage as she yelled at him.

"You, woman, are simply unreasonable."

Niu Shan was baffled by her behavior and his anger rose, raising his hand as if to hit someone.

"You might as well beat me to death then. Bold enough to commit such deeds and still have the nerve to be aggressive. If you kill me now, tomorrow I won’t need to attend to that vixen, and she can go around telling everyone about the shameful things you’ve done. Our whole family can die with you, it would be better than living disgraced, looked down upon by everyone."

Yang Banmei stood her ground and sneered coldly at Niu Shan, not caring about the growing number of people around them.

"What disgraceful thing did I do?" Niu Shan asked, utterly perplexed.

"Mom, why are you suddenly losing your temper at Dad for no reason? Speak clearly, what do you mean? Who asked you to take care of that wretched woman? You can’t possibly be intimidated by her threats, can you?"

Niu Dazhuang was also confused and angrily said, he couldn’t wait to swallow Chen Qiuyu whole for the numerous times she had cuckolded him and stolen money for her affairs. The only reason he had tolerated her before was somewhat due to his reluctance to part with her beauty, but then—

Each time he thought about the large sum of money she had stolen from him, enough to bring home another, even more beautiful, virgin bride, he felt his liver ache with rage.

"I, I..."

Yang Banmei was choked with anger, but ultimately couldn’t articulate her reasoning. In the end, she rolled her eyes furiously at Niu Shan, "Not embarrassed enough? We’ll talk more when we get back home."

Hearing this, Niu Shan and Niu Dazhuang looked as if they had eaten dung, their faces ugly. Seeing it was almost time, they begrudgingly followed Yang Banmei to board the bus back to Yushu Village.